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She is widely anthologized and her poetry is the subject of many essays, including Jorie Graham: Essays on the Poetry (2005). The Poetry Foundation considers Graham's third book, The End of Beauty (1987), to have been a "watershed" book in which Graham first used the longer verse line for which she is best known. [1]
Parker gave her first public poetry reading in 1963 in Oakland. In 1968, she began to read her poetry to women's groups at women's bookstores, coffeehouses and feminist events. [18] Judy Grahn, a fellow poet and a personal friend, identifies Pat Parker's poetry as a part of the "continuing Black tradition of radical poetry". [19]
The Vietnam War was an especially important focus of her poetry, which often tried to weave together the personal and political, as in her poem "The Sorrow Dance", which speaks of her sister's death. Also in response to the Vietnam War, Levertov joined the War Resisters League , and in 1968 signed the " Writers and Editors War Tax Protest ...
The poems were written in 1997, following the divorce from her husband of 29 years. The poems focus on her husband, and even sometimes his mistress. The collection won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. [20] She is the first American woman to win this award. [20] It also won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [21]
It may not be the 1920s anymore, but Hollywood has a lot of work to do. We’ve come a long way. We’ve got a long way to go. So let’s do the work together. Let’s lift each other up. There ...
His poem "Heart's Needle" proved inspirational for her in its theme of separation from his three-year-old daughter. [8] Sexton first read the poem at a time when her own young daughter was living with her mother-in-law. She, in turn, wrote "The Double Image", a poem which explores the multi-generational relationship between mother and daughter.
Mira Gonzalez (born May 28, 1992) is an American poet. [1] [2] [3] Her first collection, i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together, was published by Spencer Madsen of Sorry House press on January 31, 2013.
Her writing focuses on the kinship relations between women, the stories women have to tell, and their histories. [3] Halfe's poetry reasserts the importance of women in Cree culture. Halfe works with Cree intellectual traditions in her poetry. [12] She tells women's stories to explore the link between creation and knowledge in Cree storytelling ...